Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
